This week at Pathway 10.6.24

Message from the Executive Headteacher

Another wonderful week at Pathway Primary! Time flies when you're having fun and this is certainly in evidence in our schools.

We've had wonderful opportunities for curriculum enrichment this week with ‘Mantle of the Expert’ lessons taking place in each school and a very well-received Spanish day at Whittington on Wednesday.

Events such as these are evidence of how we go ‘above and beyond’ in our curriculum offer to ensure that children not only receive the statutory National Curriculum but, in addition to this, design wonderful learning opportunities to go further, as a result of the commitment of our brilliant staff team.

This week, Ms Warner, School Business Manager, and I joined our Finance Officer for budgetary meetings for each school. Another less glamorous aspect of school life, but so important in ensuring that our schools are well-run and that a secure financial base is in place to support the learning of our children. The meetings were very positive and we look forward to sharing the details with governors at the end of the month.

It was great to see parents in at Morda this week to join teachers for consultations. I know that teachers are now in full flow with report writing and we will look forward to receiving these in the not too distant future.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Mr Carl Rogers
Executive Headteacher

Morda

This week we were delighted to welcome back Tim Taylor, our Mantle of the Expert and Dramatic Inquiry trainer to work in all classes. There was a wonderful buzz around school and children were totally engaged in some fantastic dramatic learning.
 
This week’s assembly theme has been Olympic Values and we have been exploring what values might be important in sport. Children came up with lots of great ideas: resilience; fairness; courage; hard work; respect and cooperation, were just some of the children’s ideas.
 
We will be studying the Paris Olympic games and Paralympics in the coming weeks and learning about the values that are upheld through these games. On Thursday, we had a special assembly celebrating our own individuality led by Revend Yin.  We talked about how everyone is special and different, and how we shouldn’t be held back by stereotypes and everyone should be free to be themselves. We discussed the Oswestry Pride celebration, which will take place this weekend.

It has been another active week. All classes have been taking part in the ‘Morda Mile’; some year 6 pupils attending additional swimming sessions at Oswestry Pool (in order to achieve their 25 metres swimming award) and Year 6 pupils have been completing a Bikeability course this week!  During the Bikeability sessions children learned how to ride confidently and safely, first in the school grounds, and then on roads in the village. The ‘Learn to Cycle Team’ were excellent, patient instructors and the children all learned a great deal about being safe on their bikes.
 
This was the second week of parent/ teacher consultations, and it was great to see so many parents coming into school to discuss their children’s learning.

Wishing you a good weekend.

Mrs Helen Chapman
Head of School